NEW TREATMENTS MAY DELIVER IMMEDIATE RELIEF FOR DEPRESSION

Two new treatments for depression have the potential to not only work quickly but also to redefine our thinking as to the cause of depression with respect to brain chemical and electrical activity.

Low Field Magnetic Stimulation (LFMS) is a new procedure which provides immediate and highly significant relief to those suffering from major depression and bipolar depression—at least based in the first clinical trial. The results from researchers at Harvard and Cornell were published in the most recent issue of Biological Psychiatry.

The treatment was discovered by accident when Dr. Michael Rohan and his teamconducted an imaging study on healthy participants and found an antidepressantresponse in the subjects. This, in turned, led to the creation of the first LFMS device, where the brain would be subjected to low strength, high frequency electromagnetic waves.